Talk:Dalsland

One can either live In the woods, or On the steppe, maby On the meadow. Such is the order of Polish lg. and maby other lg.

For: "Since ancient times the description "Lives on Dal" has been the description used by the inhabitants themselves to describe where they live, instead of the usual "lives in ...". Speculation has it, this is due to the remote and isolated location of the province. [1]"

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Some comments on my edit

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1: If the verdict is plagiarism, so be it, I'm just happy people aren't calling geats goths

2: "markerna" is used to mean "utmarkerna", aka "hinterlands"

3: all [1] notations were placed at the same time as a different edit, intended to source, but poorly fixed so that it wasn't clear there was a source at all

4: "Götar" is not translated to "Goths" or "Gothics". The g is soft, like a /y/ sound in English, as the word geat used to have in old English too. The /ea/ vowel letters in Old (and modern) English correspond to modern /ö/ in Swedish, such as "leaf" <-> "löv", or "cheap" <-> "köpa". (A Swede could pronounce the Old English "Geatas" as swedified "jäatas" with a very deep /a/. You'll realise, if you diphthong the /äa/, it's quite similar to the pronunciation of "götas".) And while the Geats#Etymology section does mention similar roots between "göta", "guta", "geat", and "goth" (in Gothic "gut" with a long, "look" voweled, /u/). I'm fairly certain the translator/editor here didn't intend to muck them up, but just hasn't grown up speaking English with everyone around them. But we're coming up on the 19th anniversary of that edit, so you know

Much regardishness, Acetoe (talk) 17:28, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Comment 5: Nationalencyklopedin does not offer their own sources, but apparently Dalsland being known as "de Dal" in 1281 doesn't need context. If I am to go by this, then apparently "þy Dal" (assuming "Dal" is the same, which it isn't) would mean "[to/in/towards/upon] the Valley", not "the Valleys", so that's super unclear (:

Many "hi"s Acetoe (talk) 17:40, 22 February 2024 (UTC)